Top ten oldest squads in Aces High?

[Teerex]

Brother oboe,  Daddog coined that phrase "Noses in the wind since 1997" back in the days of WB's.  The dogs website was a good one,  you could look up each member sorties, earned ribbons and such.  Sadly it is no more.  I got to lookin around and found in my dusted shelves a book:

This book is published by Burbank's Books.  Warbirds: the story so far..  By: Dave "Prophet " Williams,  Geof "DocDoom" Evens,  Duane "Krod" Godwin,  Michael "Burbank" Hyde,  Foreword by: Dale " Hi-Tech " Addink...
OH-BOY,  back in the day,  this was quite a book.

Great points you bring up, about websites, Facebook, Twitter and the shift going away from services and communication.  Granted, with such a fast and faster pace of the world we live in, finding time just to be in the game is hard.

Fore me,  I'm 67 years,  Combat Vet with the 1/508th 82nd Air-Borne, Viet Nam 68/69.  Retired Monterey County Peace Officer Park Ranger at Laguna Seca Raceway..  I just purchased Thrustmaster  Hotas Warthog controllers and Saitek Pro Rudder Peddles.   This game keeps getting Better and Better and as long as AH is here, I'LL be here...

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Bill "TeeeRex" Wainscott
XO 332nd Flying Mongrels

[MrKrabs]

Brother oboe,  Daddog coined that phrase "Noses in the wind since 1997" back in the days of WB's.  The dogs website was a good one,  you could look up each member sorties, earned ribbons and such.  Sadly it is no more.  I got to lookin around and found in my dusted shelves a book:

This book is published by Burbank's Books.  Warbirds: the story so far..  By: Dave "Prophet " Williams,  Geof "DocDoom" Evens,  Duane "Krod" Godwin,  Michael "Burbank" Hyde,  Foreword by: Dale " Hi-Tech " Addink...
OH-BOY,  back in the day,  this was quite a book.

Great points you bring up, about websites, Facebook, Twitter and the shift going away from services and communication.  Granted, with such a fast and faster pace of the world we live in, finding time just to be in the game is hard.

Fore me,  I'm 67 years,  Combat Vet with the 1/508th 82nd Air-Borne, Viet Nam 68/69.  Retired Monterey County Peace Officer Park Ranger at Laguna Seca Raceway..  I just purchased Thrustmaster  Hotas Warthog controllers and Saitek Pro Rudder Peddles.   This game keeps getting Better and Better and as long as AH is here, I'LL be here...

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Bill "TeeeRex" Wainscott
XO 332nd Flying Mongrels

Yeah-yeah! 

[Trainee]

~The Unforgiven~ came from Sealed Fate in AW. 

VegasX and Hardliqr were the founders on 2 Nov 2002 they established the current name in AH.

 

[oboe]

  Teerex

I too had a Burbanks Books publication - it was "Air-to-Air Gunfighter" by DocDoom.   Great book, and IIRC he did all the illustrations himself.

One thing I really, really like about today's environment is the YouTube cinematic videos.  For talented people who have a knack for editing/directing, and who take the time to learn the ins and outs of the film viewer's capabilities -- they can produce some pretty engaging videos.     Couldn't do much of that years ago.  

http://flightsimmachinima.blogspot.com/ has some of the best, but most (all?) are based on IL-2, though I believe some of the best AH videos deserve to be shown there too.

[Brooke]

Brooke, thank for posting that historical document!  Almost 2000 pages of callsigns!   That is very interesting to look through.  I like the idea of AW's "tail number" - was that a numerical ID assigned to players?  Some of the callsigns looked too long to display online as a handle.  

You are most welcome.  Yep, the number was assigned to players.  In the early days Air Warrior, you didn't see a person's handle in flight, you saw just the number.

[BigR]

Here are old campaign records from Air Warrior, including squads and pilot scores (including for the noob "Brooke" in 1988):

http://www.musketeers.org/AWScoresComp.pdf

Also in 1988 was 715 (who wasn't a noob in that compaign).  He is also still flying here in Aces High regularly.

Wow Brooke that is awesome! Too bad it stops at 136. Would have loved to see some of the later campaigns.

[-ammo-]

Daff flew with us in Royal Swedish Air Force in WB.
bmbm was CO of RSAF.
loving the jug, bmbm and daff left the squad to create 56th.
I took over RSAF after bmbm

Daff is Danish, not Brittish, but lived in London at that time.
Met him together with =Dobs= at Dobs airforcebase at Lakenheath.

My apologies - I certainly didn't mean to misrepresent Daff.

[WWhiskey]

My first kill in AH
  WtOutlaw, killed Auditech
Tour 71
Kills of Auditech by wtoutlaw in a
P-38J
Model Name   Killed
Bf 110G-2   1


Joined VF-15 Satans Playmates the same month.

[jigsaw]

Being a sometimes history buff, I got curious about old squads in AH.   Starting with info from the "Happy Anniversary" thread to the Musketeers, and some digging on my own, I have a start:

- The Gunfighters (late 80s)
- The Musketeers (1990)  www.musketeers.org
- The Freebirds (1992) www.ah-freebirds.com
- The Damned (1988) http://www.damnedsquadron.com/
- The Screaming Blue Messiahs
- Pigs On The Wing (2003) http://www.wherethepigsfly.org/
- Arabian Knights (2000?)   http://arabian-knights.org
- The Blue Knights
- The Muppets (2000?)  http://bbs.dasmuppets.com/

Blue Knights - 1992 on TSN Red Baron

[Wraith_TMS]

Here are old campaign records from Air Warrior, including squads and pilot scores (including for the noob "Brooke" in 1988):

http://www.musketeers.org/AWScoresComp.pdf

Also in 1988 was 715 (who wasn't a noob in that compaign).  He is also still flying here in Aces High regularly.

Brooke, thanks for posting that old gem.  It's a shame we couldn't find the missing campaigns--everyone in the squad looked through old 3.5" disks and h/d's, on the 'net, etc.  At the time, it was everything we could find.  A big thanks to --[--Dicey---- and squaddies who had or found a bunch of that and I then formatted it for publication.

Since we're strolling down memory lane here, I'll post the companion to the Compendium ( ).  Anyone remember the Crash and Burn Cafe?  BTW, you guys think you talk smack now... but it's nothing new.   Here's the link to our page that has the link: http://www.musketeers.org/?p=171

Lastly, I apologize for the site's lack of recent activity.  I used to maintain it but between work and school (old dogs can still learn too), I just don't have the time these days.  Besides, we're a bunch of old guys  , so we're not that interesting.... (yeah, right).  

FWIW,

[oboe]

Well, here's what I came up with.  Lots of history in this table:



Congrats to ALL you guys who have kept the faith and kept these squads going for so long.   

[Volron]

Well, here's what I came up with.  Lots of history in this table:

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Congrats to ALL you guys who have kept the faith and kept these squads going for so long.   

According to unclkurt, Claim Jumpers were formed in 07.  We are still here.

[Getback]

Nightmares are up there for sure. Not sure if they are active in MA anymore but I think they are in FSO.

[Brooke]

Death From Above was around as of 1991.  They are listed as a squad in the 11/15/1991 campaign of Air Warrior.

[noman]

Sick Puppies started in August 2004